The right to keep and bear arms is not granted by any government; it is
a pre-existing right, and the government shall not infringe upon it.

The right to keep and bear arms does not belong to the State; it
belongs to the people.

The right to keep and bear arms does not depend upon the Militia; the
Militia depends upon the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

The regulation of the Militia is dependent upon the right of the people
to keep and bear arms.

As a human being, your right to bear arms is not dependent on the Second
Amendment; nor, for that matter, is it dependent on any government, law, or
regulation. Your right to bear arms is a direct consequence of your right to
life. That is the same, regardless of where you live, what government claims
control over your life, or what conditions you live in. As long as you are
alive, you have the right and responsibility to defend that life. Therefore,
you have the right and responsibility to take whatever personal measures are
necessary for your defense.

Within the last couple hundred years, guns have become the most effective
personal arms, both for offense and for defense - so effective that every
government that has committed genocide within the
last century has had to disarm its victims before it could murder them. Guns
are so effective for defense that US Dept. of Justice data, compiled and
analyzed in the book More Guns, Less Crime , shows that - even after
accounting for all other factors - the occurrence of violent crime is
directly reduced by private ownership of guns.

As I see it, anyone in a subordinate position (such as women and
minorities) should, both logically and rationally, be pro-gun. It's simply a
matter of survival and self-reliance. Let's take a simple, all too common,
scenario to show what I mean:

You're home alone, and someone breaks into your house. Which is more
certain to keep the invader from raping and/or killing you? A call to 911,
which if you're lucky will bring response in 10 to 15
minutes, but is more likely to bring response in 30 to 60 minutes? Or drawing
down on the invader with your pistol or shotgun and either holding him at bay
until the police arrive, scaring him away, or dispatching him into the great
beyond if he refuses to believe you're capable of defending yourself?
Criminals, the US Department of Justice, and survivors of criminal attacks
all agree the second option is more likely to save your life - whether the
invader is a punk looking for some quick loot, a rapist, or a bigot who's
looking to score points with his bigoted buddies.

This is an abstract of a paper published in the American Journal of
Psychiatry that shows that gun control laws do not reduce suicides. All
they do is incline people to use other methods to kill themselves.

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped
and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a
woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet
wound.